Edition 2: No. 54 Editorial comment The UK’s dubious role in the Palestine UN bid True to its colours, the UK has attempted to stifle human rights and accountability to international law when it demanded that President Abbas should pledge “not to pursue Israeli war criminals through the International Criminal Court.” That alone is an…

Edition 2: No. 53 The Absolute Right of Palestinian Resistance* By Lynda Burstein Brayer** The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. (Thomas Jefferson) Editorial comment The Zionist war, blatant and clandestine, against the…

Edition 2: No. 52 The options for peace shrink with Israel’s intransigence There is an unfortunate lesson to be learned from Israel’s recent assault on Gaza- Violence pays dividends. This is no fault of the Palestinians who abandoned the armed struggle and opted for dialogue and non-violent resistance. The dialogue route has offered a no-settlement…

Obama in Bush clothing- He preaches peace, practices war In an article titled “Obama administration pushes ahead with drone killings” (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/dron-n26.shtml), Patrick Martin, a Canadian journalist who is the Jerusalem-based Middle East bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper, reports that “the Obama administration is pushing ahead with plans to establish a…

Fighting in his Deathbed* We have news of Samer Issawi, a Palestinian activist on a hunger strike is hospital, protesting against his detention by the Israeli authorities which illegally occupy the Palestinian Territories. His story is no different than many others coming out of occupied Palestine. Just a little bit different: For…

Edition 2: No. 51 DCI Palestine reports that children make up approximately 23 percent of fatalities in Gaza [20 November 2012] – According to latest media reports the death toll in Gaza since the escalation in violence seven days ago has reached 115, including 27 children. These figures suggest that as many as 23 percent of…

Edition 2: No. 50 Israel’s Gaza escapade must instigate an ample BDS effort There is relentless pressure on Palestinians to keep their resistance to the occupation non-violent. At the same time, this call is accompanied by a stubborn and hypocritical in some western circles refusal to countenance measures such as Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions. At best,…

Edition 2: No. 49 Gaza under barbaric attack yet again Once again, Israel has chosen the worst form of military conduct – ruthlessly blasting Gaza. Israel has obviously learned nothing from the lessons of Operation Cast Lead. In fact the ongoing strikes resemble what Israel did in 2008-2009 when no less than 1400 people…

Edition 2: No. 47 Israeli policies of dispossession – Reminiscent of South African apartheid* By Heidi-Jane Esakov The apartheid analogy has often been used when describing the conditions of Palestinian’s living under Israeli occupation. Heidi-Jane Esakov draws these stark parralels by comparing the Israeli demolition of the Bedouin village in Israel’s Negev region to the…

Nobel Peace Prize – the enticement to war mongering The Nobel Committee has once again done the unthinkable. This year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is the European Union. It was hard, at first, to figure out whether the media was playing a prank or reporting a fact. Is the Committee that chooses awardees…

Edition 2: No. 45 InCACBI Appeals to the Organisers of the 6th Delhi International Arts Festival to Cancel The Cameri Theatre’s Performance in Delhi on Nov. 4 October 11, 2012 In solidarity with the Palestinians and their just demand for freedom, equality and justice, Indian academics, artists and activists came together in 2010 as the…

Edition 2: No. 44 By Yousef Munayyer | Sabbah Report: http://sabbah.biz/mt/?p=14119 At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week the Israeli Prime Minister succeeded and failed simultaneously. With a cartoonish display, Benjamin Netanyahu managed to become the laughing stock of the internet as parodied images of his bomb chart filled blogs and websites. Iran’s nuclear…

Centre for Responsible Tourism & Federation of Tourist Taxi Association of South Goa Press Release The Federation of Tourist Taxi Association of South Goa (FTTAG) brings together taxi unions based in South Goa. Its aim is to work for the welfare of its members and bring about qualitative changes in the working conditions…

Shack Owners Welfare Society (SOWS) (An affiliate of Centre for Responsible Tourism, Caritas-Goa and the Council for Social Justice and Peace) Institute Piedade, Opposite Captain of Ports, Panjim Tel: 9823018901, E-Mail: cruzcardozo@refdiffmail.com Memorandum In the September 14 issue of “Herald” we, the Shack Owners Welfare Society (SOWS) it was reported that the…

Edition 2: No. 43 Is a two-state solution no longer possible? In a strident assault on the unrefined plotting of the Israel regime, Nachum Barnea, one of Israel’s most influential wrote a column concluding that “the settlement project has reached its goal: the situation on the ground is irreversible, and the two-state solution is no…

One Walmart supermarket can render 3900 persons jobless!* The Indian retail sector is the second largest employer inIndiaafter agriculture, employing over 4 crore (40 million) persons as per the latest National Sample Survey (NSS) 2009-10. Most of these are small unorganised or self-employed retailers, who are unable to find gainful employment in other…